Festival Opening

The festival is delighted to open again with a Singapore film, Tan Bee Thiam’s debut feature, Tiong Bahru Social Club, a comedy about a micro-managed housing community. Fittingly, in a year when we’ve all had to confront our relationships with our home, our society and ourselves, it’s an amusing take on the way we live.

SGIFF also presents a specially commissioned short film: Shoki Lin’s Newborn, which is in a similar vein to his Adam, last year’s Best Singapore Short Film winner. Together, these two Singapore productions usher in this year’s festival programme, and highlight a greater focus on local stories that we hope will bring audiences closer together.